Academy Awards®
Awards for 1958


Picture
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Jack L. Warner - Studio Head, Producer, AUNTIE MAME
Lawrence Weingarten - Producer, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Stanley Kramer - Producer, THE DEFIANT ONES
* Arthur Freed - Producer, GIGI
Won nine Awards. Won every nominated category.
Harold Hecht - Producer, SEPARATE TABLES

Actor
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Tony Curtis, THE DEFIANT ONES
Paul Newman, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
* David Niven, SEPARATE TABLES
Sidney Poitier, THE DEFIANT ONES
Spencer Tracy, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Actress
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Susan Hayward, I WANT TO LIVE!
Deborah Kerr, SEPARATE TABLES
Shirley MacLaine, SOME CAME RUNNING
Rosalind Russell, AUNTIE MAME
Elizabeth Taylor, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Supporting Actor
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Theodore Bikel, THE DEFIANT ONES
Lee J. Cobb, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
* Burl Ives, THE BIG COUNTRY
Arthur Kennedy, SOME CAME RUNNING
Gig Young, TEACHER'S PET

Supporting Actress
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Peggy Cass, AUNTIE MAME
* Dame Wendy Hiller, SEPARATE TABLES
Martha Hyer, SOME CAME RUNNING
Maureen Stapleton, LONELYHEARTS
Cara Williams, THE DEFIANT ONES


Director
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Richard Brooks, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Stanley Kramer, THE DEFIANT ONES
* Vincente Minnelli, GIGI
Mark Robson, THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS
Robert Wise, I WANT TO LIVE!

Writing - Story and Screenplay (Written Directly For The Screen)
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith, THE DEFIANT ONES
Paddy Chayefsky, THE GODDESS
Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, HOUSEBOAT
James Edward Grant, William Bowers, THE SHEEPMAN
Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin, TEACHER'S PET

Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from Another Medium)
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Richard Brooks, James Poe, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
* Alan Jay Lerner, GIGI
Sir Alec Guinness, THE HORSE'S MOUTH
Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz, I WANT TO LIVE!
Sir Terence Rattigan, John Gay, SEPARATE TABLES

Foreign Film
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
ARMS AND THE MAN
(Federal Republic of Germany)
LA VENGANZA
(Spain)
* MON ONCLE
(France)
THE ROAD A YEAR LONG
(Yugoslavia)
BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET
(Italy)

Art Direction
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Malcolm Bert - Art Direction, George James Hopkins - Set Decoration, AUNTIE MAME
Cary Odell - Art Direction, Louis Diage - Set Decoration, BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, John DeCuir - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration, Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration, A CERTAIN SMILE
* William A. Horning - Art Direction, Preston Ames - Art Direction, Henry Grace - Set Decoration, Keogh Gleason - Set Decoration, GIGI
Hal Pereira - Art Direction, Henry Bumstead - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Set Decoration, Frank McKelvy - Set Decoration, VERTIGO

Cinematography - Color
Rules changed in 1958: Cinematography divided into separate awards for Color and Black & White.
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Harry Stradling, Sr., AUNTIE MAME
William H. Daniels, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
* Joseph Ruttenberg, GIGI
James Wong Howe, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Leon Shamroy, SOUTH PACIFIC

Cinematography - Black & White
Rules changed in 1958: Cinematography divided into separate awards for Color and Black & White.
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Sam Leavitt, THE DEFIANT ONES
Daniel L. Fapp, DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
Lionel Lindon, I WANT TO LIVE!
Charles B. Lang, Jr., SEPARATE TABLES
Joseph P. MacDonald, THE YOUNG LIONS

Costume Design
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Jean Louis, BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
Ralph Jester, Edith Head, John Jensen, THE BUCCANEER
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills, A CERTAIN SMILE
* Sir Cecil Beaton, GIGI
Walter Plunkett, SOME CAME RUNNING

Documentary Feature
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
James Carr - Producer, ANTARCTIC CROSSING
Robert Snyder - Producer, THE HIDDEN WORLD
Nathan Zucker - Producer, PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
* Ben Sharpsteen - Producer, WHITE WILDERNESS

Documentary Short Subject
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Ben Sharpsteen - Producer, AMA GIRLS
Kenneth G. Brown - Producer, EMPLOYEES ONLY
Ian Ferguson - Producer, JOURNEY INTO SPRING
Tom Daly - Producer, THE LIVING STONE
Thorold Dickinson - Producer, OVERTURE

Film Editing
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
William Ziegler, AUNTIE MAME
William A. Lyon, Al Clark, COWBOY
Frederic Knudtson, THE DEFIANT ONES
* Adrienne Fazan, GIGI
William Hornbeck, I WANT TO LIVE!

Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Rules changed in 1958: Score divided into Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Jerome Moross, THE BIG COUNTRY
* Dimitri Tiomkin, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
David Raksin, SEPARATE TABLES
Oliver Wallace, WHITE WILDERNESS
Hugo Friedhofer, THE YOUNG LIONS

Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
Rules changed in 1958: Score divided into Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Yuri Faier, G. Rozhdestvensky, THE BOLSHOI BALLET
Ray Heindorf, DAMN YANKEES
* Andre Previn, GIGI
Lionel Newman, MARDI GRAS
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby, SOUTH PACIFIC

Song
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics, MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR
"A Very Precious Love"
James Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, SOME CAME RUNNING
"To Love and Be Loved"
* Frederick Loewe - Music, Alan Jay Lerner - Lyrics, GIGI
"Gigi"
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics, A CERTAIN SMILE
"A Certain Smile"
Jay Livingston - Music & Lyrics, Ray Evans - Music & Lyrics, HOUSEBOAT
"Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)"

Animated Short
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* John W. Burton - Producer, KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS
Walt Disney - Producer, PAUL BUNYAN
William M. Weiss - Producer, SIDNEY'S FAMILY TREE

Short Subjects - Live Action Subjects
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Walt Disney - Producer, GRAND CANYON
Ian Ferguson - Producer, JOURNEY INTO SPRING
John Patrick Hayes - Producer, THE KISS
New Zealand Screen Board, George Brest Assocs., SNOWS OF AORANGI
James A. Lebenthal - Producer, T IS FOR TUMBLEWEED

Sound
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department), I WANT TO LIVE!
* Fred Hynes (Todd-AO Sound Department), SOUTH PACIFIC
Leslie I. Carey (Universal-International Studio Sound Department), A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE
George Dutton (Paramount Studio Sound Department), VERTIGO
Carl Faulkner (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department), THE YOUNG LIONS

Special Effects
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Tom Howard - Visual Effects, TOM THUMB
A. Arnold Gillespie - Visual Effects, Harold Humbrock - Audible Effects, TORPEDO RUN

Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1958.
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.

Class II (Plaque)
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Don W. Prideaux, Leroy G. Leighton, Lamp Division of General Electric Company, For the development and production of an improved 10-kilowatt lamp for motion picture set lighting.
* Panavision, Inc.
For the design and development of the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens for 35mm CinemaScope photography.

Class III (Citation)
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Willy Borberg (General Precision Laboratory)
For the development of a high speed intermittent movement for 35mm motion picture theatre projection equipment.
* Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Special Effects Department)
George Brown (Warner Bros. Special Effects Department)
Conrad Boye (Warner Bros. Special Effects Department)
For the design and fabrication of a new rapid-fire marble gun.

Honorary and Other Awards
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Maurice Chevalier, For his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century. Winner presented a Statuette.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.
* Jack L. Warner,
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No award given for 1958.
Rules changed in 1958: Anti-Communist clause dropped.